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Originally Posted by MH
This question is very individual for specific couturiers...in Fin army probably not so much.
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I realize that. That's why I'm not running around these international forums asking the same question, unless someone directly starts thumping his chest at me and saying the same stuff some (a small minority) of our lads do.
Most of my friends chose the armed service. Or, if I've understood them correctly, rather went with it because it is the usual way and there was no reason they wouldn't. Some chose it because they wanted to get away with 6 months of service instead of the 12 which is one possible lenght in the army, but the only lenght in the civilian service. These days, that it. Back in mine it was 13.
I respect that. As I said, big deal. Everyone has to do it one way or another and we are all in the same boat there.
What I don't respect is having my contribution in the service and after it belittled by a person who sat in a hole in the mud for 6 months and yelled "shot, shot, burst" at the empty forest, fantasizing about being a war hero.